Estonian start-up stories by Toivo Tänavsuu
Indilo Wireless, a rockin’ and rollin’ iPhone-iPad-iPod apps developer from Tartu, plans to launch something interesting this autumn. Marius Arras, the CEO of Indilo talks about a multimedia e-book publishing tool, currently under intensive development, that would enable anyone to publish his or her materials (books, notes) as e-books in a sexy multimedia-rich way and [...]
What a pleasant compliment for Estonian tech sector and economy! US tech tiger Seven Networks, one of the leading providers of mobile email and messaging solutions on mass market devices, will establish a considerable R&D unit in Estonia. Current plan is to grow the Estonia office to approximately 50+ employees by the end of this [...]
It was in 2006 when Playtech, an online gambling software developing superstar hired a guy from Israel, Boaz Laufer (pictured). He came to work in Estonia, where Playtech has its development units in Tallinn and Tartu. But now, four years later, there’s a depressing dispute between Laufer and Playtech. Martin Leiger from Playtech Estonia’s public [...]
Few weeks ago two well-known Estonian startuppers, Jüri Kaljundi and Andrus Purde launched Emp.ly – a new social media startup, making staffing a lot easier and fun. Emp.ly helps companies to spread their job ads over the social web (through friends, fans and followers) with ease. It is more likely to find workers this way, [...]
One of the most famous Estonian technology entrepreneurs, Allan Martinson (pictured) and the former CEO of Delfi, Andrus Raudsalu have formed a team of five people and registered a startup called Inner Circle. Their aim is to establish a new social network, much like Facebook, but lot more private, crap-free (without the FarmVille and who’s [...]
Yesterday Eesti Ekspress published my interview with Priit Alamäe (pictured), the Co-Founder of Webmedia – one of the front ranking Estonian IT companies and the author of about one third of Estonian e-government services. The interview was dedicated to the recent 7 Million EUR investment that the company received from Polish venture capital firm Enterprise Investors. [...]
Estonian state-funded VC, Estonian Development Fund promises to double its investments portfolio by the end of 2010. Ten new investments into technology companies are currently in pipeline, with total amount of money to be invested reaching over 50 million EEKs (3,2 million EUR). Estonian Development Fund was established few years ago. Benchmarking the Finnish SITRA model [...]
In: Companies
30 Mar 2010Estonian software startup Mooncascade, having focused on bootstrapping and fun ideas, has come up with a simple, yet entertaining service Sayat.me. According to Asko Seeba (pictured), the man behind this, it is supposed to be the simplest free service you can use to gather anonymous, honest and sincere feedback about you from your friends, colleagues and [...]
Multi-billion IT businesses are often started somewhere in garages, where two guys (and a dog) come together and start working on something. Estonians startup leaders have united to advocate this concept of starting businesses. They formed the club Garage48 and took events like Startup Weekend or 24 hour bit-camp as benchmarks. And now they plan to organise a series [...]